"Why Did No One Save Gabriel?" The Atlantic (10/2/2018). Garrett Therolf reports on the case of 8 year-old Gabriel Fernandez, tortured and murdered while his family was on L.A. County DCF’s voluntary services track. The DCF workers who failed to protect him face felony prosecution for child abuse and falsifying records.

APSAC ADVISOR Special Issue: Differential Response, Volume 28, Number 2, 2016. This Special Issue features critical analyses of Differential Response by Elizabeth Bartholet and others. It includes excerpts from Bartholet’s article, “Differential Response: A Dangerous Experiment in Child Welfare.” APSAC is the largest professional association focused on child maltreatment. For the Bartholet article excerpts, click here. For the full issue, click here.

Vulnerable Children and Families Act (VCF Act) Reintroduced as S.1178 and H.R.2532. The Vulnerable Children and Families Act (VCF Act), which CAP worked on along with several other organizations, was reintroduced May 18, 2017, by Senators Roy Blunt and Amy Klobuchar as S.1178. The House bill, led by Representatives Kay Granger and Brenda Lawrence, is H.R.2532. For the May 19, 2017, press release for this bill from Senator Blunt’s office, click here. For CAP Director Elizabeth Bartholet’s letter of support, click here.

Annual Human Rights Report Legislation.

CAP Faculty Director Elizabeth Bartholet together with a coalition of international adoption (IA) advocates developed and proposed legislation that became S.1177 and H.R.2643. S.1177 was introduced by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) on May 18, 2017. H.R.2643 was introduced by Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) on May 24, 2017, with co-sponsors Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and Rep. Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. (R-NY).

This legislation is designed to change the nature of the Annual Report on Human Rights Violations issued by the U.S. Dept. of State. It requires that the Report include violations involving the deliberate denial of the right of unparented children to family, including by the shutdown of IA. CAP has been supported in this effort by the Arent Fox law firm which has provided extensive pro bono assistance in working with Congress, and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice.

For additional information on the justification for this legislation, click here.

European Court of Human Rights, A.H. and Others v. Russia & Other 22 Applications, Application no. 6033/13. Brief filed 4/14/14 by HLS CAP as Third Party Intervener in case involving Russian shutdown of international adoptions to U.S. Click here to read brief.

If you are a faculty member of a law school (domestic or abroad) or if you represent a law school clinic, program, or independent organization and you would like to endorse the Policy Statement, click here.

Jayme Metzgar, "The Obama Administration is About to Make International Adoption a Lot Harder," The Federalist, November 2, 2016. Click here to read story.

Elizabeth Bartholet, “The Challenges of international adoption: What happens when adoptees can’t adapt,” Member of four-person panel on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, Sept. 29, 2016. For the video click here

Violations do occur in international adoption industry, but shutting down a country’s entire program does disservice to children; an editorial responding to below article “The Painful New Realities of International Adoption,” The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2012. Click here to read.

Tralee Pearce, "The painful new realities of international adoption," The Globe and Mail Feb. 17, 2012. Click here to read.